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Article: SOAMES'S SAGA FORESIGHT.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 24, 2002
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Byline: MARY KENNY
EMMA Soames picked a hopeful time to become editor of Saga magazine, last March.
People used to make jokes about Saga seeing it as a kind of travel mag for oldies - but the jokes stopped as the revenue and the circulation grew: last December ABC figures stood at 1,169,000. The fact that Soames had been hired to edit the monthly was proof of Saga's smartening up and confidence in the future: and, as she departed from The Daily Telegraph magazine, she vowed to "put the hip into hip replacement".
Then a ghastly event occurred, in April. Her fiance, architect Christopher Bowerbank, died suddenly. They had been very happy together ...